gally

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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

P. Penilesse, in his Supplication to the Divell, says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists," &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The galley or gally is also the name of the ship's hearth or kitchen, being the place where the grates are put up and the victuals cooked.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

When the auxiliaries gwîl and gally are used to form a passive, it is sometimes the auxiliary that takes the passive form. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

He feared that the noise would gally the quarry; a whale has remarkable hearing in certain circumstances.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry